Meir Kahane Quotes

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

Meir Kahane

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• My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Me
  • Coach

• I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Beginning
  • Feel

• When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • War
  • Got
  • Vietnam

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Personality

• It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • New
  • New York
  • Stock

• I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Every
  • Orientation

• Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Different
  • Single

• I'm just really trying to say what I really mean, which is: 'Your eye's on the prize, your eye's on the future. It's nice to know that a lot of wonderful things have happened to your life and that so much of it has been successful. That's great, but the work is really what makes it fun - and that has to be the future.'

  

  Harold Prince
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Life
  • Music
  • Anxiety

• I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Style
  • Identity

• I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fashion
  • Sometimes
  • Magic

• The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Important
  • Family
  • Past

• There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Economy
  • Recovery
  • Taxes

• Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • London
  • Jews

• It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word - the menLeaving the gardens tidy,The thousands of marriages,Lasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.

  

  Philip Larkin

• It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I think that's the thing. I don't want to date a celebrity. I want to date a normal person. So I'm looking for a normal person.

  

  Ashlee Simpson
  • Celebrity
  • I Think
  • Normal Person

• Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Tea
  • Auto
  • Employment

• It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Thinking
  • Artist
  • Mediums

• Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

  

  Meir Kahane